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A coalition of leading UK academics has called for an end to collective worship in English state schools, arguing that all children need to be given the freedom to make up their own minds on the merits of particular religious beliefs.

The Accord Coalition calls for schools to provide an education about sex and relationships which helps protect pupils from sexual abuse and harassment, provides secondary school pupils with information on accessing sexual health services, and promotes an acceptance of LGBTI people.

Marian Hilda Claassen Franz, the first full-time director of the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund (NCPTF) in the United States, died last month, aged 76, after a two-year struggle with cancer ‚Ä' reports J. Daryl Byler of Mennonite Central Committee, the North American peace church development and relief organisation.